Proofread your teaching material from the perspective of your students

🧠 What does it do?

Use this prompt to review your teaching material (such as assignments, syllabi, or student-facing emails) from the perspective of a university student.

It helps you identify unclear instructions, missing details, or confusing structure and tone — so you can edit the content before sharing it with students.

The goal: clearer communication and fewer follow-up questions!

⚠️ Disclaimer

AI can provide useful feedback and suggestions, but as a lecturer, you know your students best.

Always consider your students’ background knowledge, language skills, and course expectations. You don’t need to apply every suggestion — use your own judgment to adapt what makes sense.

✏️ Prompt

You are a university student. You’ve just received the following teaching material from your lecturer.

Type of content:
(Describe what this is. E.g., an assignment, a syllabus, a course announcement email, etc.)

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(Paste your teaching material here, or upload a document)
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As a student, respond with:
- Explain what you think the teacher wants to communicate, what are the key points?
- Are there parts that are unclear to you, or ambiguous?
- Are there details (e.g., due dates, word counts, formatting requirements) that you are missing that could become problematic if they’re not clear to you?
- Is there anything that feels confusing in terms of structure, tone, or expectations
- List each problematic section with a short explanation of what’s confusing and why.
- Offer revised wording, missing details to include, or formatting changes that would make the instructions clearer.

Provide constructive feedback from your student perspective. Use clear language and suggest specific improvements to make the teaching material easier to understand.

💡 Example

Example coming soon.

✨ Tips

Add context about the course or student level (e.g., first-year, non-native English speakers) for more tailored feedback.
Use this as a final check before sharing your material with your students.
Feel free to run this more than once, there might still be room for improvement in revised versions.
Try replacing “university student” with a more specific persona (such as 3rd year medical student) for more tailored responses.
No need to apply every suggestion, focus on what makes sense from your perspective as a teacher.

👤 Credit

This prompt was created by Yana Zaharieva and Jonathan Flores.

📄 This prompt is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.